Claudie Marcel-Dubois
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Claudie Marcel-Dubois | |
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| Born | 19 January 1913 Tours, France |
| Died | 1 February 1989 (age 76) Paris, France |
| Occupations | Musicologist, folklorist, pianist, educator |
| Known for | President of the Société d'ethnologie française (1978–1987) |
Claudie Marcel-Dubois (19 January 1913 – 1 February 1989) was a French ethnomusicologist and pianist. From 1937 until her retirement in 1981, she worked at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP) in Paris. She was president of the Société d'ethnologie française from 1978 to 1987. She taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Marcel-Dubois was born in Tours. She studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1926 to 1928, with further studies under Marguerite Long. She studied anthropology and ethnology in the 1930s with Marcel Mauss and Paul Masson-Oursel.[1]
Career
Marcel-Dubois worked with musicologists André Schaeffner and Curt Sachs[2] at the Musée de l'Homme beginning in 1934. She joined the staff at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP) when it opened in 1937, and retired from the museum in 1981, as head of the ethnomusicology department and sound library. Marie-Marguerite Pichonnet-Andral was her assistant and eventually her successor at MNATP.[1]
Marcel-Dubois was president of the Société d'ethnologie française from 1978 to 1987. She taught ethnomusicology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.[1] She served on the radio commission of the International Folk Music Council.[3] She and Andral worked with Alan Lomax to compile a collection of French folk music recordings, published in 1954 by the Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music.[4] She also worked with Ralph Rinzler on collecting Francophone folk songs in Louisiana.[5]
